ABOUT our performance on the Friday June 17th (Rain Day, 18th)

 JPA Performance at Outlook Hill on Goverrnos Island will be on FRIDAY, JUNE 17th (7-8pm) 

Looking forward to seeing you at the top of the hill!  

Thank you so much for your participation and support our Festival on May 28th

We had a great time with you throughout a day!

Our next performance event is on June 17th at Outlook Hill on Governors Island!

See you there!

Performance: from 7:00 pm

JPA will perform “Gujo Odori” and “Nishimonai Bon Odori,” two of the Big Three Bon Odori dances of Japan on top of Outlook Hill on Governors Island. This will be JPA’s second performance on Outlook Hill since the summer of 2019. These two dances are culturally distinguished with hundreds of years of history, therefore they are shown in wide variety of cultural occasions in Japan (i.e. not only during the summer obon timing). The scene of these Japanese dances on top of the Hill, with the Statue of Liberty in the background, will be a spectacular view. Please come and enjoy!

Emcees: Frank Barrett & Jiro Nagahara

Programs

Japanese Food Vendor Area: from 12:00 pm

 Japanese food items will be served at JPA Early Summer Festival! Vendors will open at 12:00 noon.

Performance Area: from 1:00 pm

Emcees:  Sakura Lin & Ken Saito

The detailed schedule of games and performances will be announced later, so please check back again. The games in this area include ring toss, watermelon splitting, candy craft performance. The performances in this area include kimono dressing demonstrations and workshops on Awaodori and Gujo Odori.

Playground Area: from 1:00 pm 

In this area, you can play Japanese games such as superball scooping, fukuwarai, ring toss, daruma otoshi, kendama, bamboo dragonfly, etc. Playing superball scooping require a small fee, but all other games are free.